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August / September 2009

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The Dragon & the Taniwha : Maori and Chinese in New Zealand, edited by Manying Ip. (2009)
This important book explores for the first time the 150-year-old relationship between New Zealand’s Indigenous Maori and the Chinese, that country’s earliest and largest non-European immigrant group. Do Maori resent Chinese immigrants? Do Chinese New Zealanders understand the role of the tangata whenua (people of the land)? Have Maori and Chinese formed alliances based on common values and history? Contributors tackle such questions from many angles. They examine how Maori newspapers portrayed Chinese and how the Chinese media portray Maori; the changing demography of the Chinese and Maori populations; Maori-Chinese marriages and the ancient migration of both groups. (Drawn from Auckland University Press website)

Rauru : Tene Waitere, Maori carving, colonial history, editor, Nicholas Thomas ; photographs, Mark Adams ; interviews, Lyonel Grant and James Schuster. (2008)
Tene Waitere of Ngati Tarawhai (1854-1931) was the most innovative Maori carver of his time and his works reached global audiences decades before the globalisation of culture became a fashionable topic. Three out of four historic Maori meeting-houses located outside New Zealand were carved or partly carved by Waitere.
The meeting house Rauru is the highlight of a famous anthropological museum in Germany. Hinemihi, the carved house featured in one section of this book, sheltered survivors of the Tarawera eruption in 1886 before being removed to the park of an English country house. The magnificent carved Ta Moko panel is one of Te Papa the Museum of New Zealand's icons.
(Drawn from Otago University Press)

A canoe in midstream : poems new & old, by Apirana Taylor. (2009)

Nga hekenga o Te Atiawa : Waitangi Tribunal report. by Alan Riwaka. (2003)
Wai 607, 4 July 2000, edited April 2003.

The edges of empires : New Zealand in the middle of the nineteenth century, by Paul Moon. (2009)

Kai Ora : fresh, healthy food made with aroha by Anne Thorp. (2009)

Mata toa : the life and times of Ranginui Walker, by Paul Spoonley. (2009)

Māori architecture : from fale to wharenui and beyond, by Deidre Brown. (2009)
Maāori Architecture charts the genesis and form of indigenous buildings in Aotearoa New Zealand. It explores the vast array of Maāori-designed structures and spaces, how they evolved over time and how they tell the story of an ever-changing people. Throughout this story, the book looks at facets of early Polynesian settlement, the influence of Christian and western technology, the buildings of religio-political movements such as Ringatuū, Parihaka and Rātana, post-war urban migration, and contemporary architecture.

He maunga rongo : report on Central North Island claims, by Waitangi Tribunal. (2008)
The VIP claim was filed on behalf of the Te Arawa Confederation, Ngāti Tuūwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Tahu, Ngāti Whaāoa, Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Whare, Ngāti Haka-Patuheuheu and Ngāti Rangi.

Journal Articles

Art New Zealand ; no. 131 (Winter 2009)
p. 24. A Pacific phoenix : the VAANA Peace Mural, by Riemke Ensing.
p. 28. Scrutinising the subject : Martin Bell paints Ralph Hotere, by Richard Wolfe.
p. 36. Kowhaiwhai dreamings : the art of Ngataiharuru Taepa, by Huhana Smith.

New Zealand journal of educational studies ; vol. 43, no. 2 (2008)
p. 3 Māori schools and central control : a post-mortem, by John Barrington.
p. 13 Māori education 1958-1990 : a personal memoir, by Joan Metge.
p. 73 Reading comprehension in Kura Kaupapa Māori classrooms : whakawhānuitia te hinengaro, by Margie Hohepa.

Illusions ; no. 41 (Winter, 2009)
p. 3. The edge of tears : Vincent Ward’s Rain of the children and postcolonial trauma, by Olivia Macassey
p. 32. Barry Barclay : the camera on the shore, by Stephen Turner.
p. 38 [review] Faith in film : Barry Barclay and fourth cinema [Stuart Murray. Images of dignity. Huia Publishers, 2008] reviewed by Stephen Turner.

Journal of New Zealand studies ; ns 6-7 (Oct 2007-Oct 2008)
Special issue : Watching the Kiwis
p. 139. concurrent narratives of Māori and integration in the 1950s and 60s, by Aroha Harris.

Electronic Journal article
Ka mate ka ora : a New Zealand journal of poetry and poetics ; issue 7 (March 2009) Interviewing Hone Tuwhare at Kaka Point, 3 December 2007, by Paul Millar

Theses

Maku ano hei hanga i toku nei whare : hapu dynamics in the Rangitikei area, 1830-1872, by Bernadette Roka Arapere. (1999)
University of Auckland - Thesis (MA in History)

Ngaa waiata haka a Heenare Waitoa o Ngaati Porou = Modern dance-poetry, by Heenare Wairoa of Ngaati Porou. (1972)
University of Auckland - Thesis (MA in Anthropology),

Tangi Putauaki : a Maori history of the Rangitaiki, by Lauren Te Aorangi Hunia. (1977)
Thesis (MA in History)

A Maori history of Tokomaru Bay, east coast North Island, by Mark Iles. (1981)
University of Auckland in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Anthropology

He koha kei roto, he utu kei waho, by Rarawa D. Kohere. (1992)
University of Auckland - Thesis (MEd)

Maku ano hei hanga i toku nei whare : hapu dynamics in the Rangitikei area, 1830-1872, by Bernadette Roka Arapere. (1999)
University of Auckland - Thesis (MA in History)

"What's in a name?" : Whatitiri : a partial representation of inherent meaning, by Dinah Hautai Paul. (2000)
University of Auckland - Thesis (MA in Māori Studies)

Nga kupu tuku iho a Haāmiora Pio, by Benjamin Wharepapa Savage. (1997)
University of Auckland - Thesis (MA in History)

Mana Maori : questions of authority on the East Coast during the nineteenth century, by Grace Smit. (1997)
University of Auckland - Thesis (MA in History)

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